Friday, September 08, 2006

Will Thailand hold General Election in October ?

If Thailand will hold election in October 2006 at all, no party except TRT has started their advertisements yet. Perhaps they do think it will not be held in time for this October. (Budgeting wise, this will be bad for the government 's fiscal management since we have no functioning parliament to pass the budget now)

Looking around my district in the Bangkok city, there has been only big plastic posters (size around 1x2 meter) from a new-face candidate from Thai Rak Thai. Looks like he is running just to get recognition and TRT people know that he 's not likely to get elected anyway. One interesting point is that, there is no PM Thaksin's picture to be seen at all. Perhaps the PM wants to keep a low profile from Bangkokians for the election, hoping that his candidates will get more scores if his image is not pasted on the top right corner or standing shoulder to shoulder with each candidate as in the past elections.

Note:- I am posting this as a matter of fact to record eye-witness 's historical information, not trying to make any political statement here. (Ha, ha. Nevertheless, one can guess or even bet with very high probability score of what my political viewpoints is like. But I will stick with my own policy of non-politics blog here. :-) )

Post-posting comments: As of early September, now it is likely that the election might be postponed to at least November 2006 (or even later).

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